While I think they could potentially be something to explore, I tell you why I’m steering clear for now.

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For those of you who may not know, there’s a new product introduction for mini options, so stocks like AAPL, for example, where you could spend $18,000 buying an AAPL contract because it’s such an expensive stock, they’ll be cutting those into tenths. So you’ll be able to trade mini options on those kinds of stocks at a tenth of the price of regular options.

I don’t have any info myself – I always step back from those new product introductions and let everybody else learn the hard lessons first and see how they work. The only thing I’m really concerned about that, honestly, is liquidity. What does liquidity look like on those?

Sometimes they introduce options products and everybody gets excited about them, but they just don’t attract any interest. Like currency index options, which came in a couple years ago. They just never got any interest. Nobody likes them.

In fact, everybody trades options on currency ETFs rather than the currency index options, but I think the currency index options would be a better product, but they just never got a lot of traction.

I’m optimistic about the mini options, but I think there’s some cause for concern so early on.

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